Void Linux. Super stable and offers an easy and lightning fast package manager. I’m not sure of your use case but it has been great for me on an older Dell precision laptop for work.
Arch for me, I use Aur as a crutch to avoid compiling and managing source projects, i love pacman and rolling releases, and it’s very easily customizable (ofc once you learn the system).
I wish I could have the AUR without the rolling release, or more realistically I use arch without utilitizing the rolling release. I’m on such shitty + spotty + capped at 100gb I only update my system once a month. Haven’t had problems though, so I guess im not complaining. Updating my windows VMs is significantly worse
I got into linux at ~20 in ~2010. It’s great but got anoyed with installing windows support for games/work, and have been stuck with window since. The game engines I work on and the tools I use (visual studio, visual assist, vsvim, etc…) simply refuse to cooperate on Linux and I can’t spend valuable work time fighting my distro.
Windows is soon forcing me to switch, and changing my entire workflow, but I’ll keep it going as long as I can
At work/for business, you can’t beat Veeam. It’s the gold standard and there is literally nothing better.
At home, Duplicity. Set it up once and then just let it go, and it supports a million different backup targets you can ship your backups off to, including the local filesystem. Has auto-aging/removal rules, easy restores, incrementals, etc. Encrypts by default too.
Can’t remember why I looked into it but my very first experience was using Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04.4) on VirtualBox. At some point I also used Wubi to install either that one or one or two versions later on a desktop PC. Honestly I didn’t really “get it”, it was difficult to do anything (tar.gz files utterly defeated me), I really didn’t understand the concept of the apt package manager. I was curious but ultimately didn’t really know why anyone would bother using it.
A few years later I installed one of the versions of Ubuntu when they moved to the Unity DE (again on Virtualbox). I remember really liking it (only later found out how controversial it was) but yet again didn’t really understand why I would want to use it instead of Windows.
It wasn’t until around maybe 2018 or 2019 that I installed Linux Mint on a spare SSD in my computer and actually began using it. However yet again I still didn’t have a reason to use it - that was until I got involved with an open source project and trying to set up a dev environment on Windows completely melted my melon. The instructions to get the dev environment going on Linux looked so much easier, and it was. I’ve barely looked back since.
I got a Karmic Koala (ubuntu 09.10) CD from my friend kn my high school days, I install it on my Pentium 4 PC then freaked out because there are no codec and I can’t install it because I have no Internet at all, lol. Going back to windows until I have Laptop on my second year of uni. I still needs to use my uni’s wifi to install any apps, but it is workable and I use Linux almost exclusively since then. (sometimes dual boot-ing if there are Lecture that needs me to use windows.)
Just chiming in to reaffirm what everyone else has said: KDE Neon is specifically built be the best KDE distro. The development branch is what KDE devs use to build & test all their software, so no distro is designed to work better with KDE software than KDE Neon.
I use this and then for each 2 weeks rsync to my cold storage. Some data I also use rclone bisync to backup to cloud, in case I need it so bad, when I’m hitting the road.
You needed to replace the workstation release identity package with the plasma release identity one. I don’t remember the exact names but that will let you uninstall all gnome packages.
Why do you want to disable it? Unless it’s causing conflicts your easiest option by far is to simply disable all extensions and pretend it doesn’t exist
I just wanted to save a bit of space, cause I thought by having two DE’s on my system would use up space. I guess if it would break my system I would leave as is. Do you know how I could make Fedora boot right into KDE instead of Gnome’s Login manager? I forgot the directory…
I don’t really distro hop much (you need a rolling release distro and a stable distro, never needed more) but if you’re asking I’ll assume you’re a Linux newb so really I would recommend doing something less custom. If you want Fedora and KDE, install the Fedora ISO that comes with KDE and be done.
I won’t say it’s incredibly complex to run multiple desktop environments, but it’s definitely more of a pain and can cause weird issues (fucking NetworkManager) Better to stick to the “happy path” and make your machine as standard as possible so it’s more compatible with everything, especially if you’re new to Linux
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